French Elections 2024

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Legislative election

• Cause

  Significant losses for Macron's party in 2024 European Parliament election and substantial gains by National Rally

• Outcome

  Hung parliament (no single bloc reached 289 seats for majority)

• Purpose

  Elect all 577 members of the 17th National Assembly

• Trigger

  Dissolution of National Assembly by President Emmanuel Macron

• Location

  France

• First Round Date

  2024-06-30

• Political Context

  Global reaction against globalism, rise of nationalist and socialist movements

• Second Round Date

  2024-07-07

• First Round Turnout

  66.71%

• Second Round Turnout

  66.63%

• Total Seats Contested

  577

• Seats Required for Majority

  289

• First Round Leading Bloc (by vote)

  National Rally and allies (33.21%)

• Second Round Leading Bloc (by seats, Interior Ministry)

  New Popular Front (180 seats)

Timeline

• President Emmanuel Macron dissolves the National Assembly and calls snap elections. (Source: Le Monde, Wikipedia)

  2024-06-09

• First round of legislative elections held in France. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-06-30

• Second round of legislative elections held in France. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-07-07

• President Macron initially refused Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's resignation. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-07-08

• President Macron accepted the resignation of the government. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-07-16

• Yaël Braun-Pivet reelected as Assemblée Nationale president. (Source: Le Monde)

  2024-07-18

• New Popular Front (NFP) leaders agreed on Lucie Castets as their candidate for prime minister. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-07-23

• A truce for political negotiations was announced during the 2024 Summer Olympics. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-07-26

• The truce for political negotiations during the 2024 Summer Olympics concluded. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-08-11

• President Macron refused to appoint Lucie Castets as Prime Minister. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-08-27

• Michel Barnier appointed as prime minister by President Macron. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-09-05

• Michel Barnier's government was presented. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-09-19

• Michel Barnier's government was announced. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-09-22

• Prime Minister Barnier presented his first speech in the National Assembly. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-10-01

• Prime Minister Michel Barnier survived a motion of no confidence. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-10-09

• Prime Minister Michel Barnier was successfully ousted by a motion of no confidence. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-12-04

2024 French legislative election

Legislative elections were held in France on 30 June and 7 July 2024 (and one day earlier for some voters outside of metropolitan France) to elect all 577 members of the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The election followed the dissolution of the National Assembly by President Emmanuel Macron, triggering a snap election after the National Rally (RN) made substantial gains and Macron's Besoin d'Europe electoral list lost a significant number of seats in the 2024 European Parliament election. In the first round of the election, the National Rally and candidates jointly backed by Éric Ciotti of The Republicans (LR) led with 33.21% of the vote, followed by the parties of the New Popular Front (NFP) with 28.14%, the pro-Macron alliance Ensemble with 21.28%, and LR candidates with 6.57%, with an overall turnout of 66.71%, the highest since 1997. On the basis of these results, a record 306 constituencies were headed to three-way runoffs and 5 to four-way runoffs, but 134 NFP and 82 Ensemble candidates withdrew despite qualifying for the run-off in order to reduce the RN's chances of winning an absolute majority of seats. In the second round, based on the Interior Ministry's candidate labeling, NFP candidates won 180 seats, with the Ensemble coalition winning 159, National Rally-supported candidates being elected to 142, and LR candidates taking 39 seats. Since no party reached the requisite 289 seats needed for a majority, the second round resulted in a hung parliament. Unofficial media classifications of candidates' affiliations may differ slightly from those used by the Ministry of Interior: according to Le Monde's analysis, 182 NFP-affiliated candidates were elected, compared with 168 for Ensemble, 143 for the RN, and 45 for LR. The voter turnout for the second round, 66.63%, likewise set the record for being the highest since 1997. Macron initially refused Gabriel Attal's resignation on 8 July, but accepted the resignation of the government on 16 July, allowing ministers to vote for the president of the National Assembly while remaining in place as a caretaker government. NFP leaders called for the appointment of a prime minister from the left, but Ensemble and LR figures advocated for an alliance and threatened that any NFP-led government including ministers from La France Insoumise (LFI) would face an immediate vote of no confidence. Post-election negotiations between NFP alliance partners exposed renewed tensions, with party leaders taking until 23 July to agree upon a name for prime minister – the 37-year-old director of finance and purchasing for the city of Paris, Lucie Castets. Macron announced a truce for making political negotiations during the 2024 Summer Olympics on 26 July to 11 August. After the truce, Macron still did not signal any intent to appoint her and called party leaders meeting in Élysée on 23 August, he finally refused to do so on 27 August, leading the NFP to announce they would not take part in further talks with Macron unless it was "to discuss forming a government". On 5 September, Macron appointed Michel Barnier as prime minister. He presented his government on 19 September and announced on 22 September. On 1 October, Barnier presented his first speech in the National Assembly. Analysts noted that the failure of any bloc to attain support from an absolute majority of deputies could lead to institutional deadlock because any government must be able to survive motions of no confidence against them. Although Macron can call a second snap election, he is unable to do so until at least a year after the 2024 election, as stipulated by the constitution. On 9 October, Barnier survived a motion of no confidence led by 193 members of the NFP and 4 members of LIOT members support. Another motion of no confidence, led by the National Rally and the leftist coalition on 4 December, successfully ousted Barnier with 331 votes in favor.

Web Search Results

• 2024 French legislative election - Wikipedia

  Legislative elections were held in France on 30 June and 7 July 2024 (and one day earlier for some voters outside of metropolitan France) to elect all 577 members "Deputy (France)") of the 17thNational Assembly "National Assembly (France)") of the Fifth French Republic. The election followed the dissolution of the National Assembly by President Emmanuel Macron, triggering a snap election after the National Rally (RN) made substantial gains and Macron's _Besoin d'Europe_electoral list lost a [...] Due to the suddenness of the dissolution of the National Assembly "National Assembly (France)"), significantly fewer candidates ran in the legislative elections in 2024 as compared to previous years, with only 4,010 candidates in 577 constituencies (the lowest figure since the 1988 election). The decline was also due to both national and local alliances. Smaller parties – such as the Animalist Party, which presented 421 candidates and received 1.1% of the vote in 2022 but announced it would not [...] In the first round of the election, the National Rally and candidates jointly backed by Éric Ciotti of The Republicans "The Republicans (France)") (LR) led with 33.21% of the vote, followed by the parties of the New Popular Front (NFP) with 28.14%,( the pro-Macron alliance Ensemble "Together (coalition)") with 21.28%,( and LR candidates with 6.57%, with an overall turnout of 66.71%, the highest since 1997.( On the basis of these results, a record 306 constituencies were headed to three-way

• Next French legislative election - Wikipedia

  | — | 4–13 Dec 2024 | Barnier government dissolved; Bayrou government formed | | — | 5 Sep 2024 | Beginning of French political crisis: Attal government dissolved; Barnier government formed | | 2024 Election Results( | 30 Jun 2024 | — | 1.14% | 28.21% | 1.57% | 0.57% | 21.28% | 1.22% | 6.57% | 3.60% | 0.28% | 3.96% | 29.26% | 0.75% | 1.60% | 1.05% | [...] The 2024 elections resulted in a hung parliament and a minority government led by Michel Barnier after being appointed by President Emmanuel Macron, with François Bayrou being appointed as the new prime minister in December 2024 after Barnier's government collapsed following a no-confidence vote, whose new government, too, collapsed in a similar manner.

• 2024 French elections - World news, culture and opinion - Le Monde

  2024 French elections ===================== President Emmanuel Macron on June 9 dissolved the Assemblée Nationale and called snap elections after his coalition suffered a heavy defeat in the European elections. The far-right Rassemblement National party came out on top with 31.5% of the votes cast, more than double the score of Macron's camp (14.6%). The parliamentary elections will take place on June 30 for the first round and July 7 for the second, Macron said. [...] Image 63News Subscribers only ### What remains of France's 'republican front' against the far right? In the snap elections of July 2024, left-wing parties and President Emmanuel Macron's supporters made concerted efforts to block the far right's advances in as many districts as possible. One year on, the center seems more tempted to ally itself with the right, against Jean-Luc Mélenchon's radical left. [...] Image 157News ### Macron-supported candidate re-elected as Assemblée Nationale president Yaël Braun-Pivet was reelected with 220 votes. In 2022, she became the first woman to be elected to this position. Published on July 18, 2024, at 9:17 pm (Paris), updated on July 18, 2024, at 10:45 pm Le Monde with AP

• French parliamentary election, June-July 2024

  | | ### Summary: Compilation of information resources relating to the legislative election held in France on 30 June and 7 July 2024. ### Further information: The 577 members of the _Assemblée nationale_ (National Assembly) are elected for five years by a two-round system in single-member constituencies. A candidate who receives an absolute majority of valid votes and a vote total greater than 25% of the registered electorate is elected in the first round. If no candidate reaches this [...] Elections Welle: French election 2024 Tag: 2024 French Legislative Election News: Tag: French Elections 2024 11/06/2024: France’s far-right National Rally projected to win snap election without absolute majority 18/06/2024: Campaigning takes off in France for snap election in two weeks News, 27/06/2024: Le Pen threatens to challenge Macron's army powers Press (AP News), 28/06/2024: High-stakes French legislative election hits torrid final stretch before first-round voting begins, 28/06/2024: [...] | Related Links | OfficialOrganization for Security and Co-operation in Europe: ODIHR: France: Early Parliamentary Elections, 30 June 2024 Government: Direction de l’information légale et administrative (DILA): Vie Publique: Actualités, 01/07/2024: Législatives 2024 : les résultats du premier tour: Vie Publique: Actualités, 01/07/2024: Législatives 2024 : les résultats du premier tour") NewsFrance24: Tag: French Legislative Elections 2024 Tag: French Election 2024 Monde: 2024 French

• France election results 2024: Who won across the country - Politico.eu

  | Group | Seats | Votes | --- | Ensemble (ENS) | 237 | 37.7 % | | New Ecological and Social People's Union | 131 | 30.8 % | | National Rally (RN) | 89 | 17.3 % | | Les Républicains (LR) | 61 | 7.0 % | | Other | 59 | 7.2 % | Questions remain following the left-wing New Popular Front’s surprise victory. The question of leadership inside the alliance is a key one. [...] Ensemble (ENS) National Rally Alliance (RN) Les Républicains (LR) Other 577 / 577 seats assigned Voter participation: 66.63% New Popular Front (NFP) (32.6%) Communist Party (PCF) 1.4% (-3) France Unbowed (LFI) 9.9% (+6) Greens (EELV) 5.1% (+11) Socialist Party (PS) 10% (+40) Ensemble (ENS) (27.9%) Democratic Movement (MODEM) 5.3% (-11) Horizons (HOR) 4.5% (-3) Renaissance (REN) 14.9% (-62) National Rally Alliance (RN) (24.6%) [...] Les Républicains (LR) Other 577 / 577 seats assigned Voter participation: 71.99% Ensemble (ENS) (41.1%) Democratic Movement (MODEM) 6.9% Horizons (HOR) 3.85% Renaissance (REN) 26.9% New Ecological and Social People's Union (22.7%) Communist Party (PCF) 2.6% France Unbowed (LFI) 17% Greens (EELV) 6.43% Socialist Party (PS) 4.8% 32.6%188 seats NFP 27.9%161 seats ENS 24.6%142 seats RN 8.3%48 seats LR 6.6%38 seats Other New Popular Front (NFP)